syslog receiving data by UDP from windows with nxlog

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Wed Aug 20 23:24:31 UTC 2014


>> +*
>> *.*				-/var/log/messages
>>
>>
>> nothing is logged.
>>
>> to test things - i configured syslog from other FreeBSD computer to send
>> logs to 10.100.100.1 - works fine.
>>
>>
>> what is wrong?
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>
> In /etc/defaults/rc.conf is 'syslogd_flags="-s"' which prevents
> connections from other machines (so that your syslogd doesn't become a
> remote disk-filling service).  The syslogd(8) manpage will show you what
> you need to set instead to allow packets from that other machine.

this is already done

syslogd_enable="YES"            # Run syslog daemon (or NO).
syslogd_flags="-vn -b 10.100.100.1 -a 10.0.0.0/8"              # Flags to syslogd (if enabled).



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